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How to determine the RGB / hex color code of a pixel 2007-04-27 16:42:00 I have just stumbled upon the latest article from Nirmal about a detailed procedure for finding the hex colour code of background. The procedure is a real elaborated effort on his part. But this can easily be done with the help of a small utility "Colour Cop" [Download here].The screen cap shows two tools; eyedropper and a lens, which can be dragged to any part of your screen. A zoomed image of the area around that tool can be viewed in the bottom square (preview pane) of color cop. The color of the central pixel of that preview pane is shown in the upper square along with the RGB as well as the hex code.If you want to change the hex code into RGB or vice-versa, simply type the value in the corresponding place. Isn't it simple. It is.
Google Desktop goes multi-lingual 2007-04-27 13:33:00 Yesterday Google
announced that they have released the Google Desktop
5 application in as many as 29 languages, Hindi being among one of them.Read the complete story at the official Google Blog. Read more:Google Desktop
Irfanview 4.00: A fast and sleek webtool for image management 2007-04-27 08:16:00 IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista.The official website of IrfanView claims that Irfanview is trying to create new and/or interesting features in its own way, unlike some other graphic viewers, whose whole "creativity" is based on feature cloning, stealing of ideas and whole dialogs from ACDSee and/or IrfanView! (for example: XnView has been stealing/cloning features and whole dialogs from IrfanView, for 7+ years).IrfanView has the ability to convert images between most of the supported formats. IrfanView can also perform some basic image editing and processing functions, including cut, crop, resize, resample, change the color depth, adjust brightness, and adjust contrast.A new version Irfanview 4.00 has just been released. You can check out the new features at versiontracker and download it from there. Alternatively you can directly download the new vresions from this link.
Speed up Mozilla Firefox 2007-04-26 11:38:00 How did you like my recent post in which I had compiled some tips for speeding up your Windows XP. Now is the turn of your Mozilla
.Mozila’s Firefox
browser can browse much faster than other browsers. Why wouldn’t you make it even faster?Mozilla firefox blog has come out with a few tips for increasing the speed of your browsing. They claim them to be increasing your speed by upto 40%.I have given them a try and found some definite change. I cannot attach any percentages to that, but definitely there was a noticeable change.Why not try these tips out for yourself. They are grouped into two categories; Simple and advanced.Go, check them out.To speed up Firefox you have to make a little minor tweaking. You can make Firefox perform up to 40% faster for page transfers. With just a few clicks and some typing, you can experience faster browsing and surfing Firefox. 1. Open the Firefox “config” page: click into the Firefox Click to read more Read more:Speed
, Mozilla Firefox
Explore the Web - sans ads 2007-04-26 10:50:00 Have you ever noticed the growing trends of advertising on net; pop-up, pop-under, adword, adsense and what not. Placement of ads is an integral part of web designing and the creators of web pages are always on the look out for luring you to click on the ads displayed on their sites.What this all mean to the user. The hapless creature is often found gasping to search and focus on the actual content on the page.Here are a few tips to keep these annoying ads away from you.1. For pop-ups / undersIts easy. Your browser itself can take care of it. You have just to set the correct option. For example Firefox Mozilla 2.0 has the option here at Tools>Options>Contents. You can also set exceptions for the sites for which you want to allowing pop-up.2. For Malware causing pop-ups:You may still occasionally see pop-ups even after step 1. This is due to some Malware hidden in your computer. For htem you may have to use some removal kit like Ad-Aware or Spybot Search & Destroy. 3. And for othersF
Few more tips to make your Windows XP faster 2007-04-25 13:17:00 Did you read my previous post to make your Windows
XP faster. Here are a few more tips, you can use to still increase the performance of your machine. 1. Disabling Error Reporting By default, WindowsXP will request to report application errors to Microsoft.To turn this off: Right click > My Computer on the desktopSelect Properties > Advanced > Error Reporting tabCheck Disable error reporting2. Remove MSN Messenger Many times it is seen that MSN Messenger is of no use. Turn it away from always starting in the system tray, by Go to Start > Runenter following : "RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%INFmsmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove" and run.3. Turn-off Built-In CD Burner If not using the built-in CD burner software that comes with Windows XP, then why loading it?: Open > ExplorerRight click the drive which is your CD burnerGo to PropertiesClick > Recording tabUncheck Enable CD recording on this drive
Speedup Windows XP in Minutes! 2007-04-25 12:24:00 Although Windows
Vista has slowly started to spread its wings, but still Windows XP is de facto standard of most of the desktop as on date.As we know XP is a feature-rich OS, but it is pain to find people often complaining about the slowness of their systems running on XP, just because it is more resource sucking.I just came across a nice tutorial (about 10 beautiful tips) to make your XP lean and thin and speed up my machine.Why not give them a shot...! Try yourself. 1. Disable extra startup programsSeveral items add up to the start up list when you install different software. Such programs are loaded when your system boots and remain in memory (RAM), they also continuously use processor. Here are is what you have to do to make them go away: Goto Start>Run, type "msconfig" > OK.Click startup tab Uncheck all th extra items which are of no use. OK.On restart a dialogue box will appear. For rest of the tips, Click here
New version of Picasa (from Google) Released 2007-04-25 08:46:00 Picasa, the complete image management software from Google
, helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Whenever you open Picasa, it, by itself, searches all pictures in your computer and files them into neatly organized albums. The smooth drag and drop feature gives working with picasa a real good experiance.What's more, with Picasa, you can easily edit your photographs - try changing hues, contrast, brightness or use the unique single click editing for many effects at once. You can make fascinating albums and share through emails, make gift CDs or sent them to your blog at blogger.Click for...More InformationDownload (Latest version
, 2.7) Size: 5.12MB, (Freeware)Download (from Google) Read more:Picasa
Technorati Favourite Exchange Program 2007-04-29 16:51:00 So, finally I have also decided not to miss the bus and join the program.For a blogger, it is highly unlikely not to have stumbled across the Dosh Dosh's favourite exchange program, So I am not going into details. But if you wanna know go straight to Dosh Dosh.In short, rules of the game are as follows: Click here to add me as your Technorati
Favorites or use the button on the sidebar of this blog for the same purpose.Then, leave a comment on this post with your Technorati Fav link, so as to allow to add you to my Favorites (simple, give and take!).And finally, link to this post with your post and I would add a link to your blog in this post (only if you are interested in link exchange). Following Blogs have already been added to my list. I target to make it to...........I don't know;NirmaltvIndiaPRBlogVoluntary DeathSix Degrees of InspirationOur JourneyTechCheeTechnospotTechnodiaryBlog@fyaisSizlopediaTechnix UpdateZathComputer Mobile CornerAskaX WorldRishirajRandom ExpressionsDigita Read more:Favourite
, Exchange
, Program
Use Internet Explorer within Firefox 2007-04-28 21:28:00 Every serious blogger, at one time or other, has to tweak with his template and whenever you do so, it is suggested that you should check it in all available and prevalent browsers, especially Firefox
and InternetExplorer
.Now a die-hard fan like me finds it very irritating to open IE, just for this purpose. Then this convenient Fire-fox add-on (IE Tab) comes to my rescue. It is a superb attempt by Mozilla to be one-up against the competition.The First screenshot shows the area around my system tray. A left-click on the IE icon changes the currently open tab into Firefox (and then this IE icon changes to Firefox icon). To open it into IE, now I have to left-click at the same spot (where now a Firefox icon is available). i.e. it acts like a toggle switch.The second screen shot is of the open tabs, where an IE icon confirms that the tab, although open in Firefox, but actually is currently using IE platform.The third shot is of the download site, where you can download the IE Tab add-on.I Read more:within
Forget Dictionary - Use this Firefox add-on for online support 2007-05-03 09:20:00 Don't know the meaning of a word on a web-page or wanna know more about it. Forget using dictionary, now online
help is available within your Firefox
browser.Just go to Mozilla Add-on page and download the extremely useful Answers add-on. After installation, for knowing the meaning of any word or query, just hold the key and left-click. A pop-up window will appear along with your answer, which gives brief introduction of the word.If you wanted to know more, just click the button provided for the same on the pop-up window and it will give you reliable facts and definitions from over 100 dictionaries, encyclopedias and almanacs without having to search through lists of search engine links.Not yet convinced?..........Why not check it out here at Mozilla Firefox blog itself.Isn't it useful. Read more:Dictionary
Determine hex color code from RGB online 2007-05-03 02:38:00 In one of the previous posts, I have talked about how to determine hex color code from RGB format (and vice versa) of any color on your screen. However that involved downloading a small utility "color cop".For those, who don't want to install an unknown software to their machines, their are also many utilities online
, 321webmaster being one of them, with which they can easily get the hex color code from RGB (also vice-versa).These small utilities are extremely useful for any website designer.
Join it: The MyBloglog Wagon has arrived. 2007-05-01 20:38:00 Blogger Lounge is a promising blog and has achieved a PR of 5 in just about more than 2 months (wish I could do the same).Thorough his blog, I had come to know about this experiment for increasing the back links through Mybloglog communities.***Start Copying Here:***Here are the rules: 1) Write a short introduction about how you found this list and include a link back to that blog. 2) COPY the rules and ENTIRE list below and post it on your blog. 3) Take “My New Community Members” and move them into the “The Original Community Members” list. 4) Find 3 new blogs, join their MyBlogLog Community and add them to the “My New Community Members” section. Remember to also add the “Join the Community” link next to your new blogs. ( Example: http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/community/ReformatThis/ ) 5) Join as a member to each Community listed here by clicking on “Join the Community”. The goal is that all of the new Members listed will join your community, and you should do the Read more:Wagon
How to make and publish flash file into your blog 2007-05-01 12:19:00 Now, you can also create and embed flash file slideshow from various images in your computer. See the attached show below.All you have to do is download Slide Show Maker and get going. The beauty of this program is that you don't require to search for a image hosting service. There is an option to host the output flash file to a hosting service 'Sky Album'. There is also an option to include music file during creation, which I avoided so as not to make it heavy to load. I find it very convenient.P.S.: The cartoons for creating this flash file were borrowed from [Credit: Funny Computer Cartoons]
Get your website indexed by Search Engines in 27 Hours 2007-05-01 08:30:00 Ezine Articles list the six surefire ways to get your website
indexed by Google within 7 days. Many people say that it takes about 4-6 weeks for Google and other Search
Engines like Yahoo and MSN to index you into their systems.But I had a very sweet experience in this regard.Can you believe, I achieved it within flat 27 Hrs. (Yes 27 Hrs.). In fact I had submitted this blog to Google, Yahoo and MSN on 28.4.07 at about 1700 Hrs. (IST) and on the very next day at about 2030 Hrs. I was on their list (sweet).Let me list the things which I did in these 27 Hrs. (may be that had contributed to this feast)Claimed by blog to Technorati.Left Comments on three popular blogs, which get updated frequently.Linked a post to Google Blog.Got listed at five Blog Directories (first five in my left sidebar).Wrote one post on Google Desktop.Pinged all services with Ping-o-matic and Pingoat....and waited silently. Read more:Hours
Blackberry Curve: New Mobile smartphone released 2007-05-05 09:30:00 Research In Motion (RIM) and Rogers Wireless (Telecom Oerator) today launched BlackBerry® Curve
™ smartphone - the smallest and lightest full QWERTY BlackBerry handset. Checkout the detailed specifications at the Blackberry website.For starters - Blackberry is the properitory technology, which allows Mobile
Phone users to access to smartly access theirEmailsCorporate DataIM (Instant Messages)Internet (also Intranet)MMS / SMSOrganizerSo what is the big deal. Many Mobile Phones now allow this.But Blackberry is different. In Blackberry whenever you send emails or access other corporate facilities, data propagates through public network, then through your protected corporate firewall, and lastly through the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server, to your internal corporate systems. So the data is secured.This is one of the features of Blackberry. For details, you can go to Blackberry website or contact RIM.It is being expected that the new Blackberry smartphone will be available through wireless Read more:released
Download Joost: A new webtool to watch TV online 2007-05-04 08:46:00 I have just received my invitation to download Joost
and didn't raise any time to grab it.In an effort to increase the awareness, Joost has now raised the limit and now virtually I can invite as many people to download Joost as I wish. Earlier Joost allowed only 5 invitations.For those who have heard Joost for the first time, it is free internet TV software which consists of over 150 TV channels and other TV shows available on-demand."Joost is a new way of watch
ing TV on the internet. With Joost, you get all the things you love about TV, including a high-quality full-screen picture, hundreds of full-length shows and easy channel-flipping."If you also wanna have an invitation, just drop a comment. If you have a website or blog, I would appreciate if you can link to this post. Read more:Download
, online
Today's Blog Review: Techlivez.com 2007-05-04 05:45:00 Shashank, nicknamed as the Irresistible guy at Techlivez.com, has started an experiment in which he proposes to give away free backlink to anybody who reviews his blog.As a new blogger, although i don't fulfill his condition of one month old blog, buthave decided to write few lines.Techlivez.com, the blog at which Shashank scribes, is just about 3 months old. The first post was written on Feb. 2 this year and Techlivez has already grabbed a PageRank of 5. This is really a remarkable achievement.In this journey of about 3 months, Shashank has authored about 125 posts (average 1.3 per day), which is a decent one. Most of his posts are about latest technology news and future technology updates. One remarkable point to note about his blog is his tremendous improvement in writing style and content selection over time. If you look at his earlier day posts, they look like a StumbleUpon product. You will not find a definite direction or purpose. But now, it is vastly improved.I wouldn't say Read more:Today
Fasterfox: Mozilla add-on to speed up for Firefox 2007-05-04 02:35:00 Firefox is beleved to be a faster browsing experience than IE. But would you want to speed up Firefox also. There is another post on this blog just for that.Still not satisfied, try Fasterfox, the built-n Mozilla
Firefox add-on.The Mozilla website says"Fasterfox allows you to tweak many network and rendering settings such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and initial paint delay."In short, Fasterfox allows you to,Suppress popups opened via Flash pluginsProvide HTTP Pipelining for very noticeable speed increaseAnd many other featuresFor those, who are not much familier with pipelines, DNS, load times etc., they have simplified life by providing a few preset settings for optimum performance. You can choose any preset condition like Default, Courteous, Optimized or Turbo-charged (the fastest one).I really find it speeding up my system and worth giving a try. Read more:Firefox
Where do you keep your Mobile 2007-05-08 10:24:00 Where do you keep your mobile ? In your front pocket, hip-pocket, belt pouch or bag ?There has been an interesting study, for NOKIA, on this issue. The key findings are...60% of men keep it in their front-right trouser pocket.61% of women carry it in a bag…and therefore miss many calls and messages! With increase in age, men shift it from pockets to belt pouchesComplete Story.However, if women don't want to miss calls and messages, just because the mobile is in their purse or bag, they can pick one beautiful trinkets (from a series provided by PhoneFlasher, sample below), which will clip to the outside of their purse and whenever a call or text message comes in, the PhoneFlasher wirelessly picks up the signal and puts on a mini light show. Read more:Mobile
Find Google Ads on your landline phone 2007-05-08 09:44:00 ZDNet has reported that a Google
- compatible patent for displaying Google - supplied ads has been filed. These ads will be served on your IP Phones through Web.The telephone
system would be controlled through a GUI displayed with the help of a language like HTML on a touch sensitive display screen on your phone. The ads will be customized based upon your interests, preferences, time / day and location.Read the complete story at ZDNet Blog.
VoIP: Basics of Internet Telephony 2007-05-07 04:38:00 Technorati tags: VoIP, Skype, Web Telephony, Webtools, Internet
Telephony It is strange world. Did you hear one say that Mobiles are eating computers. I mean.........Nowadays Mobiles are developing functionalities to replace computers. But it is also true that computers are also charging back on telephony devices. Isn't it what the VoIP, Voice over Internet Protocol all about. Now with the availability of more and more Internet Bandwidth, VoIP is set to come in a big way to replace normal telephony. Let me give a few practical aspects of VoIP. The Software: We all know Skype is the KING. Or use Windows Live Messenger / Yahoo Messenger. They are free. The Device: Off-course your computer with Head-set. Alternative Device: If you don't like head-set - use the VoIP phone. It plugs into your computer through USB. But nevertheless, your computer has to be ON. If you want to cut that cord - wireless VoIP phones are also available. Connectivity: The fast Internet connection, preferably Read more:Basics
Web Trends: Top 3 purposes for which people use Internet 2007-05-07 03:10:00 Technorati tags: Internet
, Internet use, Web trends, Trends
, Social networking Do you know, what do people
do most on Internet ? No prizes for the correct answers. Yes it is porn. But do you also know, social networking is the second activity, in which people participate on Internet and Searching for content comes at third. Economists have come out with a study, which show that now the social networking activities have almost catched up with porn oriented activities (see the graph). It is another story that during these social networking activities also, people are many times engaged towards sex related activities. So while porn is on decline, but sex is still alive. Read the complete story here. Read more:purposes
Compare different free web blog tools 2007-05-06 13:00:00 Technorati tags: Free web blog tools Every new blogger is confounded with a host of free web blog tools, which might be inserted in your code so as to give flexibility and reach to whatever you do or write. These free web blog tools automatize all sort of tasks ranging from Traffic Analysis to Ad-serving to Social Bookmarking to Searching and trackbacking. At this moment, when people have so many of the options, a newcomer blogger would always like to compare the popularity of different
blog tools. Thankfully, Lijit have come out with a fantastic study by crawling the codes of about 8552 blogs done over the period April 11-15, 2007. This makes a real interesting story. "Our first graph shows the top 50 widgets, ordered by the percentage of blogs which contain at least one widget from the provider. We see the classic power-curve (aka long tail) shape, with Google the clear leader." The results are summarized as below. There are several other interesting findings about these Read more:Compare
Nokia Mobiles now to save power 2007-05-11 02:29:00 I am one of those kind (and I know there are many of this kind) who just plug their mobiles to their chargers for the full night and unplug it only next morning. But have you ever thought, how much power
does it waste. Listen, what NOKIA says... Mobile phones sounding a beep and displaying an alert -- "Battery is full, please unplug the charger" -- could save enough electricity to power 85,000 homes annually. And that's why they are developing technology so that your mobile phone could soon be prompting you to save energy by unplugging the phone's charger when the battery is full., reports Reuters. The phone maker has previously said it had agreed with other mobile industry companies on measures to reduce energy consumption and reduce pollution in the sector as part of a project in partnership with the European Commission. The unplug alerts are likely to first appear on its 1200, 1208 and 1650 mobile phone models. Technorati tags: Nokia
, Mobile phone, energy saving
Internet Telephone on Mobiles 2007-05-10 13:18:00 It has not been long since a company "X-series from 3" had started their Internet
Telephony service on Mobile phones through Skype."X-Series from 3 combines the very best that a mobile and the internet has to offer, packaging it together to deliver your online world - mobile."Close on the heels, another venture, named as Fring, proposes to allow your mobile internet connection to make peer-to-peer VoIP calls, send instant messages and talk with VoIP applications such as Skype, Google Talk , MSN Messenger and SIP, all rolled into one.Seems convergence has indeed begun to take its place.
Mozilla Firefox browser for Mobile Phones 2007-05-10 13:00:00 We all love Mozilla
, don't we.APC Magazine has reported that Mozilla is planning to launch a Firefoxbrowser
for Mobile
s and developers are already working on it. In a recent interview, Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker said that one of the things people like most about Firefox is the ability to change and customize it and they want to bring that to the mobile version, along with the ability to give users a full web experience. "Most tech enthusiasts have wondered why web browsers on mobile phones suck so much. Mozilla Foundation CEO Mitchell Baker has been thinking about it too, and looking at how Firefox can be ported to mobile platforms." However, baker also told that it is a long term goal and not something that we should expect to see soon. (Oops!). Read more:Phones
, Mozilla Firefox
, Mobile Phones
A simple way to keep your files secured 2007-05-10 12:27:00 If you work on a shared computer, then there is always a threat of loosing important personal information on your computer to others.Windows XP has a very simple built-in secured tool to encrypt your important files
, which will be not available to other users of your computer. Here is how?For encryption: Right click on file name > Properties > General Tab > Advanced button > Check the option "Encrypt content to secure data". Multiple files / folders can be encrypted in one go.For giving permission to any other user to access an encrypted file: Right click on file name > Properties > General Tab > Advanced button > Details > Add (whichever user you like).To stand-out the excrypted files: Open Explorer > Tools Menu > Folder Options > View Tab > Advanced setting box > Select "Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color". This will change the color of the name of all the encrypted files so as to enable you to recognize them easily.For more advanced encryption: You can Download True Cr
Passwordmaker: Manage all your passwords with a master password 2007-05-09 19:58:00 Technorati tags: Password, Firefox add-on, Download, Mozilla Are you one of those, who can't resist the temptation of using single password (at most two or three) for all applications and websites. You know this isn't secure, yet you do it anyway. Why? Because it's difficult to remember a unique password for each and every web site that requires one. Sounds interesting, then read on. Passwordmaker, a Mozilla firefox add-on can manage all your passwords
with one single master password. It is unique for the website. For generating it, you key-in the master password and the URL of the site. Then based upon a complex one-way hash algorithms it generates a encrypted password and copies it into your clipboard, from where you can paste it into the website form. The important thing is that the master password is not at all stored anywhere. Coming from Mozilla, it is safe enough to be trusted. Click here to download and install or click here to know more about it. Read more:Manage
VoIP: Now Skype will send your caller ID for outgoing calls 2007-05-11 03:27:00 Three days back, Skype
rolled out the eagerly awaited Caller-ID facility in selected countries (reports one Skype update).Till now, if you use Skype service to call Landline or mobile phones, an awkward ID was sent to the called party, sometimes irritating him. Now you can now choose to show your number as your Caller-ID. All you have to do is to go to Your Account and then look for the “Caller Identification” bit. Click the “Change” link to set it up. See also the FAQ for more information. As of now, this service is available in UK, Sweden, Denmark, Japan, Hong Kong, Estonia and Poland. and this list will keep changing. Read more:calls
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